Posts tagged Tibet
Seven Days in Tibet
Tibet has been off-limits to journalists since the Chinese government brutally suppressed riots in the region five years ago. France 24’s regional correspondent Cyril Payen managed to get a seven-day visa to enter the region. What he saw lends weight to the complaints of the Dalai Lama and human rights organisations, who say Tibetan culture is being erased.
Tibet's Man on Fire
Tibetans continue to burn. This week, two monks from Taktsang Lhamo Kirti monastery, Lobsang Dawa and Konchok Woeser, set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. A week earlier, a young mother by the single name Chugtso self-immolated, leaving behind her husband and a three-year-old child. Well over a hundred Tibetans have sacrificed themselves in this way since 2009. Yet it’s very difficult for journalists to cover the burnings, because Chinese authorities block access to the areas where they occur, and impose punishments on those who provide information to the outside world. The self-immolation a year ago of Jamphel Yeshi, however, took place in India, beyond the Chinese news blockade. National Geographic covered his story in detail…
(Jeff Bartholet for Nat Geo)
MT @ thepeoplesrecord On Tuesday February 20th, 2013: Two Tibetan teenagers killed themselves by self-immolation on Tuesday to protest Chinese rule in Tibet. The two were among the youngest Tibetans to kill themselves in protest, and the act was a rare instance in which Tibetans committed self-immolation together.
Some 107 Tibetans have set themsleves alight in protest of Chinese rule in Tibet and calling for the return of Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
(via overlookingtibet)
I will imagine...by Tsering Kyi
The early morning call from my relatives in Tibet woke me in my Washington, DC apartment. I heard people crying, and yelling and sounds of protest in the local dialect of my hometown Amchok in eastern Tibet.
“Boys, don’t be sad, be strong, walk this way, walk forward. Om Mani Padme Hum, think of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.” Nobody was speaking to me. Just confusion on the other end of the phone. I knew something terrible had happened.
(Washington Post)
MT via dongdey: 1913 Tibetan Proclamation of Independence
A Fly on the Wall: A Rant by the Rangzen Kid
I’m with dongdey- keep up Rangzen, applaud for you from here too.
Even if you are one- one is better than none.
via dongdey: via the rangzenkid:
With the large number of mainland Chinese boarding students in my American high school, their opinion is naturally more important then mine. I am the only Tibetan in the school. There’s not even any Bhutanese, Nepali, or Indian. There are a few Taiwanese, but…
You keep it up. Question’s whether it sounds stupid to you or not. I think you’re raising a good point which should be taken seriously. It’s hard to take this on by yourself but it starts with one. I applaud your courage.
